Grad Student - AARC

Jin Hyung Lim

Jin Hyung is a PhD student in the School Psychology Program at the Berkeley School of Education. As an international student from South Korea, he is passionate about promoting the mental health of Asian American students, teachers, and families. Guided by the social-ecological framework and resilience theory, he studies how school and community resources can function as promotive and protective factors for the psychological well-being of Asian Americans.

Sun Moon

Sociology & Demography, UC Berkeley

Lisa Ng

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Catherine Park

School of Education, UC Berkeley

Catherine Park is a Ph.D. candidate in Education at the University of California, Berkeley with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies. Catherine's research centers on how Mandarin-English dual immersion programs offered in private and public/charter schooling interact with not only sociospatial politics of urban spaces, but also transnational movements of capital, peoples, and power. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and Psychology from Swarthmore College, an M.A. in China Studies from Zhejiang University, and has taught in NYC public high schools, where she...

Evan James Tadashi Sakuma

Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley

Crystal Song

Performance Studies, UC Berkeley

Taesoo Song

City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Taesoo Song is a Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the nexus of housing policy, neighborhood change, and residential outcomes for low-income and minority households, particularly in high-cost areas. Taesoo's dissertation reassesses the prevailing narrative that Asian Americans face minimal barriers in the housing market. He investigates the ethnic, class, and locational diversity among Asian Americans and how these factors influence their homeownership rates and housing burdens. He then examines the impact of...

Amanda Su

English, UC Berkeley

Nathan Tilton

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Nathan Anthony Tilton, MA, uses he/him pronouns. His disability pronouns are: service dog handler, chair user, neurodivergent, and disabled veteran. He is the Associate Director at UC Berkeley's Disability Lab and a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology. His research interests encompass disability anthropology, veteran health, critical disability studies, post colonial studies, crip time, and military biopolitics. Nate's research examines the ways in which institutions disable people, focusing on disabled veterans on Guam and the afterlives of former U.S. military bases in the Philippines....

Derek Wu

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Derek Wu is a PhD student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley (Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies). He is using historical, ethnographic, and action research methods to research how racial minorities use religion to support low-income urban neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area, paying special attention to how these behaviors are shaped by secularization and decolonization narratives in the U.S. His research has been supported by the Asian American Research Center, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, and the Asian Pacific Americans Religious...